{"id":74619,"date":"2017-04-26T11:46:01","date_gmt":"2017-04-26T10:46:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/buzzsouthafrica.com\/?p=74619"},"modified":"2019-10-05T22:52:50","modified_gmt":"2019-10-05T21:52:50","slug":"african-proverbs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buzzsouthafrica.com\/african-proverbs\/","title":{"rendered":"60 Insightful African Proverbs You Didn’t Know You Needed"},"content":{"rendered":"
Growing up as an African, you may have had African proverbs thrown your way once or twice from either your parents, aunts, cousins, uncle or grandparents.<\/p>\n
Truth is, sometimes, they are endearing, fun and insightful. Other times, not so much. So here are a few African proverbs you weren’t aware you needed to hear at least once in your life…the good and the bad, in all their glory<\/p>\n
1. He that beats the drum for the madman to dance is no better than the madman himself.<\/p>\n
2. A hunter who has only one arrow does not shoot with careless aim.<\/p>\n
3. He who goes to sleep with an itching anus wakes up with smelly fingers.<\/p>\n
4. It is not hunger that makes a cat be smaller than a tiger: It is its nature.<\/p>\n
5. The frown on the face of the goat will not stop it from being taken to the market.<\/p>\n
6. Birds sing not because they have answers but because they have songs.<\/p>\n
7. No matter how beautiful and well crafted a coffin might look, it will not make anyone wish for death.<\/p>\n
8. A person who sells eggs should not start a fight in the market.<\/p>\n\n
9. When you climb the mountain and reach the top, do not forget the branches shrubs that helped your footing.<\/p>\n
10. The child of a rat is a rat.<\/p>\n
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11. The girl with stars in her eyes will shine like the moonlight.<\/p>\n
12. A flea can trouble a lion more than a lion can trouble a flea.<\/p>\n
13. Where there is honey, there are bound to be ants.<\/p>\n
Read Also:\u00a05 Telling Signs You Are In A Really Healthy Relationship<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n 14. The death of an elderly man is like a burning library.<\/p>\n 15. An intelligent enemy is better than a stupid friend.<\/p>\n 16. The night has ears.<\/p>\n 17. Eneke the bird says that since men have learned to shoot without missing, he has learned to fly without perching.<\/p>\n 18. It is the fear of what tomorrow may bring that makes the tortoise carry his house along with him wherever he goes.<\/p>\n 19. \u00a0A doctor who invoked a storm on his people cannot prevent his house from destruction.<\/p>\n 20. Be a mountain or lean on one.<\/p>\n 21. Do not follow a person who is running away.<\/p>\n\n 22. If your only tool is a hammer, you will see every problem as a nail.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n 23. Wisdom is like a baobab tree; no one individual can embrace it.<\/p>\n 24. The best time to plant a tree is 20 years ago; the next best time is now.<\/p>\n 25. Even as the Archer loves the arrow that flies, so he too loves the bow that remains constant in his hands.<\/p>\n 26. He who burns down his house knows why ashes cost a fortune.<\/p>\n 27. Until the lions have their historians, tales of hunting will always glorify the hunter.<\/p>\n 28. The fool speaks, the wise man listens.<\/p>\n 29. Peace is costly but it is worth the expense.<\/p>\n 30. A naked man will often laugh at someone with torn clothes<\/p>\n 31. We desire to bequeath two things to our children; the first one is ‘roots’, the other one is ‘wings’.<\/p>\n 32. Once you have found your first diamond, you will never give up looking.<\/p>\n 33. The wise create proverbs for fools to learn, not to repeat.<\/p>\n 34. By the time the fool has learned the game, the players have dispersed.<\/p>\n 35. In the moment of crisis, the wise build bridges and the foolish build dams.<\/p>\n 36. If you are building a house and a nail breaks, do you stop building or do you change the nail?<\/p>\n\n 37. He who learns, teaches.<\/p>\n